>I am open to cup feeding but I want definitive proof of it's safety -
>long term safety as well.
>I just won't risk their present or future health unless new
>ideas i.e. cup feeding <4 mo. is clinically proven.


Is there definite proof that bottle feeding is safe? Has bottlefeeding been
clinically proven? Where's the proof?

You should listen to and view the videos from the 1996 La Leche League
Western Division Conference in which Marina Markovich from Austria showed
very small, very premature, very low birthweight babies feeding fine long
before our traditional experience would tell us they were ready to feed.
Sucking, swallowing and growing.  Cathy Liles